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In reply to the discussion: "Looks like one bad dude" [View all]Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)62. Tulsa and race...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, hundreds of whites led a racially motivated attack on the black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing some 300 people, mostly blacks. The attack, carried out on the ground and by air, destroyed more than 35 blocks of the district, then the wealthiest black community in the nation. More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals and more than 6,000 black residents were arrested and detained, some for as many as eight days.[2] The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics was 39.
The attack left an estimated 10,000 people homeless. Fire destroyed 1,256 homes and 191 businesses, as well as the communitys churches, junior high school, and hospitals.The riot was triggered over a Memorial Day weekend by a report in two white newspapers that a black youth had tried to rapeor at least assaulta young white woman elevator operator. One of the newspapers allegedly editorialized that the youth ought to be hanged. Rumors raced through the black community that a lynch mob was planning to hang the youth. A group of armed African-American men rushed to the police station with the intention of preventing a lynching from occurring. There was no lynch mob but a confrontation developed between blacks and whites; shots were fired and some whites were killed. As the news spread throughout the city, mob violence exploded. Thousands of whites rampaged through the black community, killing men and women, burning and looting stores and homes. Some blacks claimed that policemen had joined the mob; others claimed that a machine gun was fired into the black community and a plane dropped sticks of dynamite.[3] In an eyewitness account discovered in 2015, Greenwood attorney Buck Colbert Franklin describes watching a dozen or more airplanes drop burning balls of turpentine on the citys rooftops. None of the areas half-dozen fire stations sounded an alarm, and Franklin remembers wondering, Is the city in conspiracy with the mob? [4] In 2001, 80 years after the massacre, the state-appointed Tulsa Race Riot Commission recommended reparations to survivors and their descendants because the city had, indeed, conspired with the mob.[5]
The events of the massacre were long omitted from local and state histories: "The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place."[6] With the number of survivors declining, in 1996, the state legislature commissioned a report to establish the historical record of the events, and acknowledge the victims and damages to the black community. Released in 2001, the report included the commission's recommendations for some compensatory actions, most of which were not implemented by the state and city governments. The state passed legislation to establish some scholarships for descendants of survivors, economic development of Greenwood, and a memorial park to the victims in Tulsa. The latter was dedicated in 2010.
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, hundreds of whites led a racially motivated attack on the black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing some 300 people, mostly blacks. The attack, carried out on the ground and by air, destroyed more than 35 blocks of the district, then the wealthiest black community in the nation. More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals and more than 6,000 black residents were arrested and detained, some for as many as eight days.[2] The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics was 39.
The attack left an estimated 10,000 people homeless. Fire destroyed 1,256 homes and 191 businesses, as well as the communitys churches, junior high school, and hospitals.The riot was triggered over a Memorial Day weekend by a report in two white newspapers that a black youth had tried to rapeor at least assaulta young white woman elevator operator. One of the newspapers allegedly editorialized that the youth ought to be hanged. Rumors raced through the black community that a lynch mob was planning to hang the youth. A group of armed African-American men rushed to the police station with the intention of preventing a lynching from occurring. There was no lynch mob but a confrontation developed between blacks and whites; shots were fired and some whites were killed. As the news spread throughout the city, mob violence exploded. Thousands of whites rampaged through the black community, killing men and women, burning and looting stores and homes. Some blacks claimed that policemen had joined the mob; others claimed that a machine gun was fired into the black community and a plane dropped sticks of dynamite.[3] In an eyewitness account discovered in 2015, Greenwood attorney Buck Colbert Franklin describes watching a dozen or more airplanes drop burning balls of turpentine on the citys rooftops. None of the areas half-dozen fire stations sounded an alarm, and Franklin remembers wondering, Is the city in conspiracy with the mob? [4] In 2001, 80 years after the massacre, the state-appointed Tulsa Race Riot Commission recommended reparations to survivors and their descendants because the city had, indeed, conspired with the mob.[5]
The events of the massacre were long omitted from local and state histories: "The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place."[6] With the number of survivors declining, in 1996, the state legislature commissioned a report to establish the historical record of the events, and acknowledge the victims and damages to the black community. Released in 2001, the report included the commission's recommendations for some compensatory actions, most of which were not implemented by the state and city governments. The state passed legislation to establish some scholarships for descendants of survivors, economic development of Greenwood, and a memorial park to the victims in Tulsa. The latter was dedicated in 2010.
I lived in Tulsa in 1990 and 1991. The people I knew and hung out with were very lovely. But there was an undercurrent I sensed from others.
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In the last few years Oklahoma has actually managed to put two LEOs in prison for their
CBGLuthier
Sep 2016
#9
+1, especially at that distance !! the person who shot gets paid leave... what the fuck kind of
uponit7771
Sep 2016
#28
There's an unstated cultural assumption that black bodies are inherently weaponized.
LeftyMom
Sep 2016
#24
I remember taking this test several years ago and being surprised how bad I did.
Hassin Bin Sober
Sep 2016
#30
They don't even think to come out with a reason a shot was fired from that distance at all !!!
uponit7771
Sep 2016
#27
I'm im wondering why we are not seeing he initial officer's dash cam video.
Hassin Bin Sober
Sep 2016
#43
You're the only one saying that? No reports of that. All are saying his car broke down
brush
Sep 2016
#85
Something doesn't sound right with the report that his car was left running in the road.
brush
Sep 2016
#91
The pinnacle of disgust are DU members attempting to justify this shooting.
HughBeaumont
Sep 2016
#47
I don't think it's 'justifying the shooting' to say that if he'd stopped walking as the cops told
Marr
Sep 2016
#48
Well said, and you're absolutely right. It sure as hell does sound like somebody trying to justify
Number23
Sep 2016
#90
this is as helpful as when people tell women to wear more clothes or not drink to avoid getting
La Lioness Priyanka
Sep 2016
#56
To him? Yes. To people who may be pulled over today, or tomorrow, or the day after that?
Marr
Sep 2016
#83
I swear! Sometimes you wonder if iodine deficiency in the American diet is causing this idiocy among
BlueCaliDem
Sep 2016
#52
Holy Shit! News conference shows the window of the car he supposedly reached into was rolled up.
CBGLuthier
Sep 2016
#67
At some point the citizens of America, hopefully with the prompting of the press,
randr
Sep 2016
#70
How do these killers live with themselves? Whom do they believe they're protecting?
TonyPDX
Sep 2016
#75
it's interesting how this stuff only started once cameras became ubiquitous.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2016
#76